"Let no freedom be allowed to novelty, because it is not fitting that any addition should be made to antiquity. Let not the clear faith and belief of our forefathers be fouled by any muddy admixture."
-- Pope Sixtus III

Friday, August 31, 2012

Remember when Tebowing was a thing? Ah, we recall it like it was just yesterday.
Thankfully, today's story takes place in Western Pennsylvania, where
things often stick around years and even decades after they've gone out
of style in the rest of the country.

According to a report obtained by The Smoking Gun,
Shenango Township police are on the lookout for a man who assaulted a
17-year-old in front of his house Monday night. The kid drove his
lawnmower out into the road when the suspect was driving by, and the
suspect got out of his car, shoved the teen off the mower, assaulted
him, then:

"The male then walked back towards his vehicle, stopping and kneeling down as if in prayer (a ‘Tebow')."

He
then hauled ass out of there. Police are looking for a tall, bald man
with glasses, and a predilection for memes at inappropriate times.

He's a babykilling, big-government, lying piece of garbage. Qualitatively, he's no different than the jug-eared commie ghoul in the White [Racist.] House. The difference is quantitative, kiddies. Romney [Repansycans] will destroy us at a slower rate than Okhrana [Democrasses] will, giving us more time to escape or revolt.

1 out of 6 high school and middle school students are bullied every year.1 in 88 American kids is born with autism.1 in 166 American kids is born with autism.1 in 12 American kids have ADHD.Odds of your child dying in a car accident are 1 in 23,000.1 in 6 Americans lives in poverty.1 in 6 American kids is starving.1 in 9 elderly Americans is abused.36,000 Americans die annually from the flu.12,000 Americans die annually from the flu.1 in 160 American kids is born with autism.1 in 150 American kids is born with autism.1 in 110 American kids is born with autism.60 million American adults are obese.1 in 4 girls is sexually abused by age 18.1 in 6 boys is sexually abused by age 18.

Where's my lunch money? One provocative poster
shows a little girl raising her middle finger and addresses the
President as a 'jerk' for over-spending

Another one of the politically-charged posters, supporting Republican candidate Romney, shows a smiling President with communist hammer and sickle symbols added to his shirt collar.

Beneath the picture are the words: 'Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot. Obama – One Big A** Mistake America. Vote Mitt Romney For 2012!'

Eric Folsom, a father from a neighboring town, told local newspaper The Enterprise that it could put him in a difficult position when he passes by with his six-year-old daughter.'If she saw that, she’d say "Why is that little girl doing that? What does that mean?"' he said. 'How do I explain that?'

You should tell her she lives in a country becoming less free by the minute and that real men who are outraged about it are willing to use what little freedom they have left to fight back, you inane pansy.

'Racist': Another one of the signs at the busy
intersection shows Barack Obama with communist symbols on his collar and
says: 'Somewhere in Kenya, a village in missing its idiot'

James Brown, of Brockton, said the signs outside Sullivans Inc were racist and 'ridiculous', and showed that the U.S. as a nation 'needs to grow up.'

'I don’t know how anybody can approve of that,' said Mr Brown, a 28-year-old teacher.

GET YOUR KIDS OU OF THE GOVERNMENT INDOCTRINATION CENTERS SO IMBECILES LIKE THIS BROWN GUY CAN'T WARP THEIR MINDS.

'If you want to support Mitt Romney, you can put up positive messages
for Mitt Romney rather than negative slogans for Obama. That type of
statement is real redneck. It’s regressive and not progressive.'

However, others found the boards amusing, honking or stopping to take pictures as they passed.Stephen
McGrath, a 26-year-old naval veteran from Plymouth, said: 'People are
sensitive nowadays anyway. I’ve seen (Obama portrayed) with Hitler
moustaches. It’s hilarious, the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long
time.'

'Bankrupt America...yes we can!' Town officials
say the signs are distracting for drivers and illegal, as the store's
owner has no permit to display them

The offending finger has now been covered over with packing tape and the authorities are debating whether the boards are even legal, since owner Robert Sullivan did not get a permit from the building commissioner to put them up.

Town official Bob Curran said the eye-catching signs could be distracting and dangerous for pedestrians and drivers.Mr Sullivan’s lawyer, however, said he is protected under the First Amendment and that he is entitled to 'free speech'.

The signs are just the latest anti-Obama displays to cause outrage. Earlier this month, a protest was staged beneath an Indiana Tea Party billboard that compared Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden.It read: 'The Navy SEALS removed one threat to America. The voters must remove the other.'

Extreme tactics: The posters erected in support
of Republican candidate Mitt Romney have been called offensive and
ridiculous - but others find them funny

Thursday, August 30, 2012

ALLEN, Texas (AP) — Call it the palace of high school football:
A gleaming $60 million facility with seats for 18,000 roaring fans, a
38-foot-wide high-definition video screen, corporate sponsors and a
towering upper deck.

Welcome to the new home of Eagles Football.

As
school districts across the country struggle to retain teachers,
replace outdated textbooks and keep class sizes from ballooning, the
wealthy, burgeoning Dallas suburb of Allen is preparing to christen its
new stadium with a sold-out Friday night matchup against defending state
champions Southlake Carroll.

It's
not the biggest high school stadium in football-mad Texas, but Eagle
Stadium is the grandest, with a spacious weight room for the players and
practice areas for Allen High School's
wrestling and golf teams. The school district decided to build it in a
down economy, knowing full well it will never recoup the costs.

It's
a decision that local officials and team supporters defend, saying the
stadium will serve as a community centerpiece and source of pride for
years to come and will more than pay the costs of operating it.

"There
will be kids that come through here that will be able to play on a
field that only a few people will ever get the chance to play in," said
Wes Bishop, the father of a junior linebacker on the team and head of
the local booster club.

For longtime Allen fans, it's a giant step forward from a facility that district spokesman Tim Carroll called "inadequate in almost every way."

The
old building opened in 1976, when Allen had fewer than 8,000 residents,
with 7,000 permanent seats, one concession stand and one set of
bathrooms. As the town grew to its current population of 87,000, the
school had to add portable toilets and rent temporary bleachers, which
added 7,000 seats at a cost of $250,000 a year, Carroll said.

Today,
the high school has 4,000 students enrolled and a 700-member band
that's among the biggest in the country. Collin County, which includes
Allen and other Dallas suburbs, is one of the wealthiest areas of Texas —
and home to some of the state's top football teams.

About 63
percent of voters supported a $119 million bond package in 2009.
Construction on the stadium began a year later. District officials went
with more expensive concrete seating over all-aluminum benches, adding
perhaps $4 million more to the cost, according to officials. But they
said they expected this stadium to last decades.

"Our intention is
not to recoup the money it cost to build the stadium," Carroll said.
"It's not practical to say we'll get that money back. (But) the revenue
we receive from the stadium will far exceed the cost of operating it."

While
the district did not have estimates, Carroll said he expects the
stadium to be competitive in hosting high school playoff games and other
events. The school has also sold six sponsorships for about $35,000 a
year, he said.

The new stadium revives an old argument in Texas about whether communities and their schools have their priorities straight.

In
1982, when the West Texas city of Odessa built a 19,000-seat stadium
for a then-unheard-of $5.6 million, it drew scorn from some people who
questioned the district's priorities. Odessa would be featured a few
years later in the book "Friday Night Lights," a national best-seller that inspired a movie and a TV series.

Ross
Perot, the billionaire businessman and former presidential candidate,
repeatedly took aim at his home state's football culture as he pushed
the state to shed extracurricular activities and increase accountability
measures.

"Do we want our kids to win on Friday night on the
football field or do we want them to win all through their lives?" Perot
said in a 1988 Washington Post column. "That's what we have to start
asking ourselves."

Today, neighboring Plano High School's stadium
seats more than 14,000 people. Mesquite, about 30 miles away from Allen,
has a 20,000-seat stadium. And the Berry Center, a suburban Houston
facility with a stadium, an arena and theater, opened in 2006 and cost
about $84 million.

"In a couple of years, someone's going to do
something that's bigger and bigger," said Robert McSpadden, who runs the
high school football site TexasBob.com.

Officials
in Allen reject the premise that they're focusing on sports over
academics. The bonds approved three years ago also funded a new
performing arts center, and Carroll said extra revenue from stadium
operations will go into the district general fund. Allen's student test
scores are also largely stellar.

But for now, Eagle Stadium is gaining wide notoriety. The No. 8-ranked Eagles' Friday game against Southlake Carroll,
which won a state championship last year and is ranked No. 1 in The
Associated Press' Class 5A preseason poll this season, sold out in just
over a day. More than 2,000 people are expected to watch from
standing-room areas.

Bishop's
son Zack, a linebacker, said he and his teammates already noticed
differences: a more spacious weight room, a softer playing field.

"It's going to be really incredible to step out in front of a full house and a sold-out game," he said.

Chris
Wallace, whose oldest son is a senior quarterback, said she had to
reassure him when they visited smaller colleges over the summer with
older facilities.

"In his mind, this is it," she said. "He can't even believe it's here already."

And there's always room for growth.

Fred
Montes, one of the architects of what he called "an incredible
project," said the district's master plan left open the possibility for
more construction, if needed.

"The end zone that has seats currently can be expanded," he said. "And on the visitors' side, you can always put a deck."

THE
KANSAS STATE quarterback had his first completion in July. LSU is
pledging to have a more vertical attack in an offense that was mostly
horizontal in the BCS title game. And somebody get coach Brian Kelly a
road map. He's taking Notre Dame some place it hasn't been in nearly 50
years.

As the annual 50 things to know about college football
report rolls through, it's OK to stop and wonder which conference West
Virginia is in.

1 Oklahoma State's quarterback in the Fiesta Bowl
was 28-year-old senior Brandon Weeden. He has been succeeded by
18-year-old true freshman Wes Lunt, who had a 590-yard game for
Rochester (Ill.) High School last year.

2
Top-ranked Southern Cal, led by Heisman hopeful quarterback Matt
Barkley, hosts fifth-ranked Oregon on Nov. 3 in the Pac-12's most
attractive game. The Trojans open the season with a visit from Hawaii on
Saturday.

3 Hawaii's new head coach is Norm Chow, who was the
Trojans' offensive coordinator during the Matt Leinart/Reggie Bush glory
years.

4 The first interesting game of the year is
Michigan-Alabama at the Jerry Jones dome on Saturday. It's the first
meeting between the two since Tom Brady and the Wolves beat the Tide in
the 2000 Orange Bowl.

5 Auto racer Brad Keselowski is a huge
Wolverines fan, so he probably will make some enemies among the crowd at
the Oct. 7 NASCAR race should Michigan pull the upset. "I don't know
how I will be received in Talladega," he told Michigan's athletic
website. "If we win that game, I am going to wear my 'M' hat. That
should be interesting." A real fan would wear the hat regardless of the outcome. Alabama is a two-touchdown favorite.

6
Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein married former K-State basketball
player Shalin Spani in July. Shalin is the daughter of Gary Spani, a
former Wildcats linebacker who is in both the College Football and
Kansas City Chiefs halls of fame.

8
Any school that actively tried to poach Penn State kids must
forevermore call its players athlete-students instead of
student-athletes.

9
Illinois, one of those teams, set up shop in State College seeking
transfers and one, lineman Ryan Nowicki, took them up on it. "If you're
from our conference and you're going to try and steal our players and
then wish us well, then I got a serious problem with that," said PSU
linebacker Michael Mauti. The Lions play at Illinois on Sept. 29.

10
Look for Silas Redd, Penn State's most coveted transfer, to start off
splitting carries at USC with Curtis McNeal. The Trojans are coming off a
2-year bowl ban and are the Associated Press preseason No. 1.

11
Kickoffs have been moved up 5 yards to the 35-yard line and touchbacks
will be placed at the 25 instead of the 20. Mark it down: Because of
their violent nature, kickoffs someday will be eliminated.

12
Kansas coach Charlie Weis is at his fourth job in the 8 years since he
left the Patriots after the 2004 season. He hasn't found a home and the
Pats haven't won a Super Bowl without him.

14
Clemson has talent at the skill positions, including quarterback Tajh
Boyd, but will there be any hangover from the 70-33 thrashing by West
Virginia in the Orange Bowl? Clemson hits the ground running with a game
against Auburn, but will be without splendid wide receiver Sammy
Watkins, who is suspended two games for an offseason arrest for
marijuana.

15 Good luck to the "Honey Badger" with whatever demons he's fighting.

16
Georgia Tech linebacker Jeremiah Attaochu started playing football in
ninth grade because "I got tired of just watching it." Attaochu is on
the Lombardi watchlist.

17 The BCS championship streak for the Southeastern Conference is at six. The league has six teams in the AP Top 25, including No. 2 Alabama and No. 3 LSU.

18 The Big 12 also has six teams ranked by the AP,
including No. 4 Oklahoma and newest additions TCU (20) and West
Virginia (11), which is located east of everybody else in the league.

19
Arkansas hosts LSU and Alabama and is a national-title darkhorse with
the return of all-league quarterback Tyler Wilson and running back Knile
Davis, who missed 2011 with a broken ankle.

20
The Razorbacks have a new coach this season after Bobby Petrino wrecked
his motorcycle and his career in the same accident in the spring. John
L. Smith, best known for building high-flying offenses at Louisville, is
now in charge.

21 LSU, which couldn't move the ball with a
Sherman tank against Alabama in the BCS Championship game, feels it has a
bona-fide slinger in quarterback Zach Mettenberger.

22 Metterberger
started his career at Georgia, but was kicked off the team following a
2010 arrest. He pleaded guilty to sexual battery for allegedly touching
the breasts and buttocks of a woman, but kept himself clean during two
concurrent 1-year probation periods. LSU does not play Georgia during
the regular season.

23 Duke
junior guard Dave Harding led a humanitarian mission to Africa with 11
teammates. "We saw a lot of poverty, things that even seeing a picture
of doesn't include: the smells and things," he told Fox Sports. "So,
struggling through that, talking about that, really helped us all become
stronger."

24 Vanderbilt, fresh off a 6-7 season that ended with a
loss in the Liberty Bowl, has renovated its stadium to include a giant
video scoreboard and a new artificial surface.

25 "If you think of
pro sports, we're that small-market team, even though in the SEC we're
in the biggest city [Nashville]. We're the small-market team. We're the
only private school. We've got the smallest enrollment. We've got the
smallest alumni base. It's more expensive to go here. It's harder to get
in, so we're kind of that small-market team, that engine that keeps
having to say, 'I can, I can, I can.' And we're doing it. But make no
mistake. We want to be better." - Vanderbilt vice chancellor David
Williams.

26 Nebraska is wearing all-red unis for its home night
game against Wisconsin on Sept. 29. It's wearing black helmets for the
first time, too. A bit contrived, but it should be quite a scene in
Lincoln.

27 "There's no such thing as a [transition] year in
college football, certainly not at Ohio State and certainly not with
myself and our staff and our players," said new coach Urban Meyer. The
Buckeyes, 6-7 last year, are coming off their first losing season since
1988.

28 On the one hand, NCAA president Mark Emmert said Penn
State's harsh punishment was "to make sure the university establishes an
athletic culture and daily mindset in which football will never again
be placed ahead of education, nurturing and protecting young people."

29 On the other, Fox and ESPN signed a 12-year deal with the Pac-12 worth about $3 billion.

30 Then again, if college football wasn't so popular, the Daily News wouldn't be devoting an entire week to previewing the season.

31 Montee
Ball, the Wisconsin running back who sustained a concussion after being
attacked by five males on Aug. 1, is fine for Saturday's game against
Northern Iowa. Ball needs 18 touchdowns to break the career record of 78
held by Miami-Ohio running back Travis Prentice (1996-99). Marshall
Faulk, Ron Dayne and Ricky Williams are among those he'd pass on the way
to Prentice.

32 What
started as the Blockbuster Bowl, and became the Carquest, Micron, Mazda
and Champs Sports bowls is now known as the Russell Athletic Bowl. It's
Dec. 28 and will match teams from the ACC and Big East.

33 Michigan
State again should have the best defense in the Big Ten. Massive end
William Gholston (6-7, 278), a cousin of Jets 2008 first-round pick
Vernon Gholston, is among eight returning starters.

35 Auburn
offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn took the head-coaching job at
Arkansas State, so the Tigers will use more traditional offensive sets
than Malzahn's no-huddle/heavy-shotgun formations. Former Temple
offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler is Auburn's new OC.

36 Toledo
senior safety Mark Singer (Holy Cross H.S.) is back after missing all of
2011 with a torn labrum. The last action Singer saw was in a
heartbreaking loss to Florida International in the 2010 Little Caesars
Pizza Bowl when he had a career-high eight tackles.

37 This time
last year, the CyHawk Trophy, given annually to the winner of Iowa
State-Iowa, was universally ridiculed because it was changed to a goofy
bronze sculpture of a corn farmer and his family. It was changed again
for 2012, this time depicting each team's mascot. Hilarious. This year's
game is Sept. 8.

38 Former Penn State wide receiver Justin Brown
landed at Oklahoma and will be counted on to contribute immediately. The
Sooners have a Heisman candidate in quarterback Landry Jones, but an
inexperienced offensive line.

39 Notre Dame, on Oct. 27, will play
at Oklahoma for the first time since 1966, when the top-ranked Irish put
a 38-0 hurting on the 10th-ranked Sooners.

40
Alabama's Barrett Jones won the Outland Trophy as a left tackle last
season, but he has been moved to center. Jones has started 35 games
heading into his senior season, including 25 at right guard his first
two seasons. That's remarkable versatility.

41 Mike Leach, who
guided Texas Tech to 10 straight bowl games, has taken over for Paul
Wulff at Washington State. Wulff was 9-40 in four seasons. "We'll just
do the best we can and try to win one game a week," Leach said simply.

42
Georgia has nine starters back on defense and also returns Andy Murray,
who set the school record with 35 TD passes last season.

43
Missouri hosts Georgia in its first SEC game on Sept. 8. "It's going to
be mammoth," Mizzou coach Gary Pinkel said. "It's going to be very
historic . . . It will be wild."

44 The addition of Missouri, along
with LSU and Auburn, gives the SEC three schools with the nickname
"Tigers." Throw in the Kentucky Wildcats and the league has more cats
than the old lady who lives down the street.

45 Texas A&M hosts
Florida, also on Sept. 8, in its SEC debut. The Aggies close the
regular season at home against fellow Big 12 defector Missouri.

46 Hope
the Florida coaches are able to move lineman Sharrif Floyd back inside.
Floyd started 11 games at defensive end last year out of necessity, and
held his own. But his more natural spot is at d-tackle where he was
ranked No. 1 coming out of George Washington High School 3 years ago.
Gators freshman quarterback Skyler Mornhinweg (St. Joseph's Prep) isn't
likely to see much time yet.

47 Michigan senior quarterback Denard
Robinson is arguably the most exciting upperclassman in the nation.
Among underclassmen, there's nobody more electrifying than Oregon
sophomore running back De'Anthony Thomas.

48 Notre Dame opens the
season in Dublin, Ireland on Saturday at 9 a.m. EST. "Notre Dame"
Harvey's annual kickoff party at Keenan's in North Wildwood starts an
hour earlier that morning. Proceeds from this year's event benefit the
Billy Dunphy scholarship fund for St. Gabriel's grade school in South
Philly. Stop in if you're at the shore - and awake.

49 Terrific
Irish linebacker Manti Te'o is entering his senior season. "A successful
year for me will be when I run out of that tunnel for the last time,
and people are crying," he told the Chicago Tribune. "That'll
show me I made an impact on lives here. When I see that happening - when
I see people standing and crying - that's when I'll know I had a
successful year."

50 The pick: There is no doubt that Tyrann
Mathieu will be missed, but LSU has enough to compensate for losing
their dynamic playmaker. Getting out of the SEC is never easy, but the
Tigers have a reasonable schedule with South Carolina and Alabama at
home. The trip to Arkansas at the end of the season (Nov. 23) will be an
adventure, but Zach Mettenberger will take control of the offense and
LSU will beat Southern Cal to win another BCS title for the SEC.

At 6:27 a.m. on his first day as a sophomore at Perry Hall High School in the Baltimore suburbs, Robert Wayne Gladden Jr. updated his Facebook status.

"First
day of school, last day of my life," he wrote. He then typed a symbol
resembling a person with two middle fingers extended before adding "f---
the world."

... a kid like Bobby would look his bully in the eye and say "Fuck you, asshole" and then get on with his life. Or he'd go to his dad and learn how to punch said bully in the head and then get on with his life...

Gladden, a pale
youth with long, dark hair who turned 15 just three weeks ago, has been
charged as an adult in the shooting of a 17-year-old classmate, who was
hit in the back with a shotgun blast in the school's cafeteria Monday
morning. The victim, Daniel Borowy, remained in critical condition Tuesday afternoon.

...but nowadays, kids are more sensitive and less neanderthal. [That is, more "evolved".] Sticks and stones and words are answered with shotgun blasts. Where is the self-esteem our government indoctrination centers trumpet incessantly? If you were full of self-esteem would you care what some ignorant and insecure child thinks of your looks or speech or behavior or beliefs or music or clothes?

Of course not. If Leviathan and Hollyweird had taught you that you were valuable simply because you exist, you'd say "Fuck you, asshole" and get on with your life. The
terrifying truth is this, kiddies: Power loves victims of all sorts.
The terror of the victimized makes them more pliable and more willing to
surrender their God-given freedoms in exchange for the sham protection
of the power-mad who rule them. Why protect anyone when your power lies in increasing the number of victims who gladly make themselves your slaves?

And what about dear old dad? This nonsense has rotted our society from within for so long, that men no longer know how to be men or how to teach their sons how to be men.

While
authorities did not discuss a motive for the shooting, Baltimore County
Police Chief James Johnson said Gladden planned the attack and fired a
shot at random before school staff rushed him. A second shot hit the
ceiling during the struggle, police said.

But Gladden's attorney, George Psoras,
challenged that version of events, saying that the teenager brought the
shotgun to school to intimidate bullies and did not aim it at
classmates or intend to harm anyone. Psoras said he believes Gladden
fired into the floor and the gun discharged again accidentally while
teachers tried to wrestle it away.

"The stereotype right now is
that we have a Columbine," Psoras told The Associated Press. "It's
simply not the case. This is a typical teenager who was just starting
this school year. He was being bullied, and the bullying has to stop."

The
police chief said Gladden told investigators directly that bullying was
not the motive for the shooting. But Psoras said that his client made
those comments under duress and he criticized police for their
interrogation tactics. Elise Armacost, a police spokesman, said the
department stood by the chief's statements.

Meanwhile,
Gladden's Facebook page and comments from his classmates suggested a
troubled and withdrawn young man. Patrick Waters, a 14-year-old
sophomore at Perry Hall, said that Gladden didn't have many friends and
dressed "kind of different." He also said Gladden had been disciplined
in middle school.

"He would just walk up and hit people," Waters said.

Waters said he'd played football against Gladden in middle school, but he didn't think Gladden was involved in sports anymore.

"He'd like wear it in front of his face, like he was hiding," Cardona said.

The
Facebook page, which classmates confirmed was his, makes references to
murder-suicide and to mass murderer Charles Manson. Gladden gave himself
the nickname "SuicidalSmile," and the three photos of him all show his
face hidden behind his long hair. He describes himself as a "metalhead"
and a fan of musicians Marilyn Manson and Slipknot.

There were
also indications of a troubled home life. Gladden's father and
stepfather both have criminal records, and his stepfather is facing gun
charges stemming from a search of his home Monday. The charges are not
related to the school shooting, police said.

"Golly, Fyodor, are you a psychic?"

Nope. You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

According to the
timeline provided by Johnson and by prosecutors in charging documents,
Gladden rode the bus to school, carrying a bag with a disassembled
shotgun, 21 rounds of ammunition and a bottle of vodka.

When he
arrived at Perry Hall High School — the county's largest school, serving
the quiet, middle-class suburbs northeast of Baltimore — he attended
his first two classes. On the way to lunch, he stashed the bag with the
gun in a restroom.

He was inside the cafeteria briefly before
returning to the restroom to assemble the double-barreled shotgun, which
was manufactured before 1968 and had been taken from his father's house
in Middle River, police said.

At some point he sipped from the
vodka bottle, but he was not drunk, police said. He hid the gun under
his clothing and went back to the cafeteria.

Once inside the
bustling lunchroom, he lifted the shotgun and fired at a nearby table,
striking Borowy, police said. But Psoras said Gladden fired the first
shot into the ground. He said the second shot was fired accidentally as
school staff struggled with his client for control of the gun.

School officials and witnesses praised guidance counselor Jesse Wasmer for wrestling the gun out of Gladden's hands.

"This
situation could have been much, much worse," county schools
Superintendent Dallas Dance said. "Thanks to Jesse for his quick
thinking."

The victim, Borowy,
has Down syndrome, according to classmates. His family issued a
statement thanking supporters for their prayers and asking for privacy.

Gladden
was being held without bail. A bail review was expected Wednesday, and
assistant state's attorney Garret Glennon said he would argue that the
teen continue to be held without bail. A preliminary hearing was
scheduled for Sept. 7.

Psoras cautioned against a rush to judgment.

"There
are no pat generalizations that can ever explain these types of cases.
The human brain is exceptionally complex," he said. "When all the facts
come out, you'll see that Mr. Gladden was not some demon."

Gladden's father, Robert W. Gladden, told the AP Monday night that his son had been bullied, although he did not elaborate.

Classes
resumed Tuesday at the school amid a low-key police presence. About 150
students turned out for a prayer vigil organized by local churches on
the school grounds. Some students wore T-shirts and bracelets reading
"Pray for Daniel" and "Team Wasmer" in reference to the victim and the
guidance counselor.

The
terrifying truth is this, kiddies: Power loves victims of all sorts.
The terror of the victimized makes them more pliable and more willing to
surrender their God-given freedoms in exchange for the sham protection
of the power-mad who rule them. Why protect anyone when your power lies
in increasing the number of victims who gladly make themselves your
slaves?

The families of the Colorado theater shooting victims
came together publicly for the first time today in a press conference
fueled by pain, anger and frustration over the actions of a charity fund
set up to help the families.

In the wake of the shooting that left 12 people dead and 58 wounded, a non-profit called Giving First set up the Aurora Victims Relief Fund, which was supported by Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper.

Members of the public and private entities have raised $5 million
through the fund, but the families say that the charity has not been
working fast enough to distribute the money and that they are not
including the victims' families in the decision making process.

The group was led by Tom Teves, whose 24-year-old son Alex Teves died protecting his girlfriend from the gunfire in the theater on July 20, 2012.

"Forget about having a robust guiding voice, the victims have no voice at all," Teves said. "Fighting for justice is not easy for us because we are doing this at a time in our lives when we are in extreme pain."

"It's incomprehensible what we have to do," he said. "There's not enough
money in the federal government to replace what we lost."

Teves said that the $5 million was collected "using our murdered loved
one's pictures and names" with the promise that all of the money would
go directly to the victims' families.

"Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case," Teves said.

Only a fraction of the money has made its way to the victims so far,
Teves said, with priority being given to various non-profit
organizations. He claimed that it was only after the families started
making noise about the funds that the the organization distributed
$350,000. Each of the 70 victims' families was given $5,000.

Chantel Blunk, the wife of Jonathan Blunk
who died in the theater, said that she was told the $5,000 should cover
funeral costs, psychiatric help, debts and other necessities.

"How do you raise a 4-year-old and a 2-year-old until they're 18 with
$5,000?" Blunk asked incredulously. She added that she was denied money
for a plane ticket to bring her child with her to Colorado.

Giving First did not respond to request for comment.

The families made a few passing references to accused shooter James
Holmes, referring to him as a "coward," "somebody sick" and a "horrible
man," but made it clear that they did not want to give him any more
publicity than he has already received.

Holmes is accused of a mass killing in which he sprayed bullets into a crowded movie theater
during a midnight premiere screening of the Batman movie, "The Dark
Knight Rises," on July 20. Twelve people were killed and 58 were wounded
in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, as measured by number of
people shot.

Holmes was charged with 24 counts of first degree murder, two counts for
each of the people he is accused of killing. He was also charged with
116 counts of attempted first degree murder, one count of possessing an
explosive device and one count of violent crime. He faces a total of 142
criminal charges.

"None of us allowed our family members to leave for a movie and never
come back or come back wounded," an impassioned Deidra Brooks said. Her
Jarell Brooks, 19, was shot while helping get a mother and her two
children out of the movie theater.

"Somebody sick inflicted pain on all of our lives," Brooks said. "My
heart bleeds for these 12 families, but my heart [also] bleeds because
72 families will never be the same again."

Teves also called on Hickenlooper to help the families, saying that his
requests to speak to the governor have not been answered.

"Gov. Hickenlooper, you came and grieved with our families," he said.
"We allowed you into our inner most circle at the worst time in our
lives. We didn't do this lightly. You pledged 12 times, 'We will
remember.' Are you a man that is true to your words or are they just
words?"

At a vigil days after the shooting, Hickenlooper said the name of each
shooting victim and led the crowd in a refrain of "We will remember"
after each name.

Hickenlooper's office did not respond to a request for comment.

Multiple family members said that they were not looking to "get rich" from the funds.

"We have nothing to gain as the family of the murder victims," Teves
said. "We have already lost everything. Evil started this. Good has to
finish it. It's time to pick a side."

Flesh-eating seagulls that attack southern right whales off the coast of Argentina are to be shot by police in patrol boats.

The birds have developed a habit of attacking the endangered mammals in one of their prime breeding grounds.

Seagulls off the coast of the Patagonian city of Puerto Madryn have
discovered that by pecking at the whales as they come up for air they
can create open wounds.
Each time the whales then surface gulls swoop down and cut away skin and blubber with their beaks and claws.

Aside from the environmental issues, experts also fear it could hit
tourist numbers with whale-watching changing from a magical experience
to something from a horror movie.

Whales are also changing their behaviour in response to the attacks.

Instead of breaching the water and dramatically displaying their tails,
they rise just barely enough to breathe through their blow-holes before
descending to safety.

"It's not just that the gulls are attacking the whales, but that
they're feeding from them, and this way of feeding is a habit that is
growing and becoming more frequent," said Marcelo Bertellotti of the
National Patagonia Centre.

"It really worries us because the damage they're doing to the whales is
multiplying, especially to infant whales that are born in these
waters."

Environmentalists say the plan is misguided, claiming humans are to
blame by creating so much rubbish that the gull population has exploded.

They say the only way to effectively reduce the seagull population is
to deny the birds food by closing open-air tips around the gulf and
stopping fishermen and a nearby seafood packing plant from dumping
scraps into the water.

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

From AP via Yahoo News:

The female wing of a civil rights group is urging women in Togo to stage a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of the country's president.

If you're wondering how a sex strike lasting only a week has any hope of bringing down a government, remember that Togo's men have very few televised sporting contests to occupy their, um,...minds.

Women are being asked to start withholding sex from their husbands or partners as of Monday, said Isabelle Ameganvi,
leader of the women's wing of the group Let's Save Togo. She said the
strike will put pressure on Togo's men to take action against President
Faure Gnassingbe.

Ameganvi, a lawyer, told The Associated Press that her group is following the example of Liberia's women, who used a sex strike in 2003 to campaign for peace.

"We have many means to oblige men to understand what women want in Togo," Ameganvi said.

The
sex strike was announced at a rally Saturday of several thousand in the
capital city, Lome. The demonstration was organized by a coalition that
is protesting recent electoral reforms, which they say will make it
easier for Gnassingbe's party to win re-election in the parliamentary polls set for October.

Gnassingbe came to power in 2005, following the death of his father, Eyadema Gnassingbe,
who ruled the West African country for 38 years. Gnassingbe has not
commented on the sex strike, nor has his wife. Earlier this month, two
anti-Gnassingbe protests were dispersed by police using tear gas and
more than 100 people were arrested.

At Saturday's rally, which ended peacefully, Jean-Pierre Fabre, leader of the National Alliance for Change opposition party, called for Gnassingbe's resignation. Other opposition leaders called for civil disobedience.

But it is the sex strike that has people talking in this small country of more than 6 million people.

"It's
a good thing for us women to observe this sex strike as long as our
children are in jail now. I believe that by observing this, we will get
them released," Abla Tamekloe said. "For me, it's like fasting, and
unless you fast, you will not get what you want from God."

When
asked if her husband would agree, Tamekloe said: "It is easy for me to
observe it. I am used to it, but I am not sure my husband will accept,
but I have to explain to him."

Another Togolese woman said she supports the sex strike, but she does not know if she can carry it out for a full week.

"I
do agree that we women have to observe this sex strike but I know my
husband will not let me complete it. He may agree at first, but as far
as I know him, he will change overnight," Judith Agbetoglo said. "So I
don't believe I can do the one-week sex strike. Otherwise, I will have
serious issues with him. He likes that too much."

Though
the call for a sex strike seemed to please many women, some men,
including heads of opposition parties and human rights groups in the
anti-Gnassingbe coalition, did not believe it would be a success.

"One
week sex strike is too much," said Fabre of the National Alliance for
Change, who suggested a shorter period, amid laughter from the crowd at
the demonstration. "Let's go for only two days".

Others were skeptical of Isabelle Ameganvi's call.

"It
is easy for her to say because she is not married herself. She does not
live with a man at home," said Ekoue Blame, a Togolese journalist.
"Does she think women who live with their husband will be able to
observe that? By the way, who controls what couples do behind closed
doors?"

Two unidentified members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot
have reportedly fled Russia in an attempt to evade arrest and, likely, a
sentence similar to the two-year prison term handed down to their
bandmates.

- CBC via Yahoo! Canada News

Let's hope they come to AmeriKKKa, kiddies. We need some more anti-fascist freedom fighters in this country...even ones with poor taste.

Russian Orthodox Church activists burst into a theatrical show about the Pussy Riot feminist punk band late Monday, shouting "Repent!" and "Why do you hate Russians," as they were filmed by a national channel.

A lawyer for the jailed members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot
on Monday appealed against the three women's conviction for a protest
against President Vladimir Putin at a church altar, but said he had
little hope the verdict would be overturned. - Roto-Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News

Forty years after the classic song "Sweet Caroline" was released, Neil
Diamond finally revealed that President John F. Kennedy's daughter, Caroline Kennedy,
[then 11 years old - F. G.] was its inspiration. He told the
Associated Press in November that he wrote the song after seeing a photo
of Caroline with her pony, perhaps similar to the photo at left.

The song could be awkward in light of the Jerry Sandusky child-sex scandal.

However,
Associate Athletic Director Greg Myford says that while the lyrics were
discussed, "Sweet Caroline" had been on the bubble for several years
because the song has no real connection to Penn State. He says "it
simply became easier to rotate out in order to try something else."

Diamond has said he wrote the song in tribute to President John F. Kennedy's daughter, Caroline

The owner of an
Indian clothing store said Wednesday that he would only change its name
from "Hitler" if he was compensated for re-branding costs, amid a
growing row over the new shop.

The outlet, which sells Western
men's wear, opened 10 days ago in Ahmedabad city in the western state of
Gujarat with "Hitler" written in big letters over the front and with a
Nazi swastika as the dot on the "i".

Actually, kiddies, the swastika is an ancient Indian [real Aryans] symbol the Nazis stole.

"I will change it (the name) if
people want to compensate me for the money we have spent -- the logo,
the hoarding, the business cards, the brand," Rajesh Shah told AFP.

He put the total costs at about 150,000 rupees ($2,700).

Shah insisted that until the
store opened he did not know who Adolf Hitler was and that Hitler was a
nickname given to the grandfather of his store partner because "he was
very strict".

"I didn't know how much the name
would disturb people," he told AFP by telephone from Ahmedabad. "It was
only when the store opened I learnt Hitler had killed six million
people."

Members of the tiny Jewish
community in Ahmedabad condemned the store's name, while a senior
Israeli diplomat said the embassy would raise the matter "in the
strongest possible way."

"People use such names mostly out of ignorance," Israel's Mumbai Consul General Orna Sagiv told AFP.

Esther David, a prominent Indian
writer in Ahmedabad who is Jewish, said she was "disturbed and
distressed" by the shop, but added that some Indians used the word
"Hitler" casually to describe autocratic people.

David said Jewish residents had sought to change Shah's mind about the store's name and told him about the Holocaust.

The row evoked memories of a
controversy six years ago when a Mumbai restaurant owner called his cafe
"Hitler's Cross" and put a swastika on the hoarding, claiming Hitler
was a "catchy" name.

The restaurant owner eventually
agreed to change the name after protests by the Israeli embassy, Germany
and the US Anti-Defamation League.

Hitler attracts an unusual degree of respect in some parts of India, with his book "Mein Kampf" a popular title in bookshops and on street stalls.

Gujarat schoolbooks issued by the
Hindu nationalist state government were criticised a few years ago for
praising Hitler as someone who gave "dignity and prestige" to the German
government.

Seriously, dude, that's amusing. It nearly always amazes me upon what or whom folks fixate. Thanks for the addition to my collection of oddities.

BTW, thanks for mentioning my post, [any publicity. et cetera] 5 Guys Burgers ARE the best., that guy's music is better than anything...well, you know. It would be too perfect if you were a vegan as well. Please don't tell me if you aren't, it might ruin the fun.

I doubt any of you kiddies failed to get it, but just in case you were wondering, his intestines were
being used as an allegory for his mind. Let's all pray he doesn't take this embarrassment out
on his old lady.

P.S. - OMG!!!!!! HOW DID HE KNOW I LIKE PIE? GET OUT OF MY HEAD, YOU CLOWNISH TEXAN CHURL! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!!!!!

1 out of 6 high school and middle school students are bullied every year.

1 in 88 American kids is born with autism.1 in 166 American kids is born with autism.1 in 12 American kids have ADHD.Odds of your child dying in a car accident are 1 in 23,000.1 in 6 Americans lives in poverty.1 in 6 American kids is starving.1 in 9 elderly Americans is abused.36,000 Americans die annually from the flu.12,000 Americans die annually from the flu.1 in 160 American kids is born with autism.1 in 150 American kids is born with autism.1 in 110 American kids is born with autism.60 million American adults are obese.1 in 4 girls is sexually abused by age 18.1 in 6 boys is sexually abused by age 18.

About Me

First of all, the word is SEX, not GENDER. If you are ever tempted to use the word GENDER, don't. The word is SEX! SEX! SEX! SEX! For example: "My sex is male." is correct.
"My gender is male." means nothing. Look it up.
What kind of sick neo-Puritan nonsense is this? Idiot left-fascists, get your blood-soaked paws off the English language. Hence I am choosing "male" under protest.